'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Ferrari Auction!

[rkolinski]

This auction is for a working replica of the 1985 Modena Spyder California used in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Here is the bidding page for those of you who might want to participate!

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...aleSectionNo=2

[LordCrumb]

I'd rather have the Delorean

[Batman1980]

Besides, wasn't this smashed when Cameron kicked it and it fell out the window and rolled down the hill?

[rkolinski]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

Besides, wasn't this smashed when Cameron kicked it and it fell out the window and rolled down the hill?

This is from Wikipedia:

"Car

The 1961 Ferrari GT CaliforniaIn the film, Ferris convinces Cameron to borrow his father's rare 1961 Ferrari GT California. "The insert shots of the Ferrari were real of the 250 GT California," Hughes explains in the DVD commentary, "The cars we used in the wide shots were obviously reproductions. There were only 100 of these cars, so it was way too expensive to destroy. We had a number of replicas made. They were pretty good, but for the tight shots I needed a real one, so we brought one in to the stage and shot the inserts with it."[7]

Auto restorationist Mark Goyette designed the kits for three reproductions used in the film and chronicled the whereabouts of the cars today: [16]

"Built by Goyette and leased to Paramount for the filming. It’s the one that jumps over the camera, and is used in almost every shot. At the end of filming, Paramount returned it to Goyette, with the exhaust crushed and cracks in the body. “There was quite a bit of superficial damage, but it held up amazingly well,” he said. He rebuilt it, and sold it to a young couple in California. The husband later ran it off the road, and Goyette rebuilt the front end for him. That owner sold it in the mid-90s, and it turned up again around 2000, but hasn’t emerged since."[16]
"Sold to Paramount as a kit for them to assemble as their stunt car, they did such a poor job that it was basically unusable, aside from going backwards out the window of Cameron’s house. Rebuilt, it ended up at Planet Hollywood in Minneapolis, but dropped off the map along with Planet Hollywood Minneapolis."[16]
"Another kit, supposed to be built as a shell for the out the window scene, it was never completed at all, and disappeared after the film was completed. Goyette thinks he once heard it was eventually completed and sold off, but it could also still be in a back lot at Paramount."[16]
The "replicar" was "universally hated by the crew," said Ruck. "It didn't work right." The scene in which Ferris turns off the car to leave it with the garage attendant had to re-filmed a dozen times because it wouldn't start up.[5]

At the time of filming, the original 250 GT California model was worth $350,000.[5] Since the release of the film, it became one of the most expensive cars ever sold, going at auction in 2008 for $10,976,000.[17]

The vanity plate of Cameron's dad's Ferrari spells NRVOUS and the other plates seen in the film are homages to Hughes's earlier works, VCTN (National Lampoon’s Vacation), TBC (The Breakfast Club), MMOM (Mr. Mom), as well as 4FBDO (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off).

One of the "replicars" is to be sold by Bonhams on April 19, 2010 at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, United Kingdom[18][19]."

[sfmarine]

I'd gladly take it if I had the money. but as rkolinski mentions...it was a kit car. It looked good though! I'll take an Enzo instead.

[Foggy]

Your all getting ripped, have you seen the mileage on that thing

[kelvin555]

How much for the smashed up verison?